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So today this just out of the blue started to happen. All of the mods I have installed for singleplayer use show lua errors in the debug and won't let me get on the game. I think it is false and the game is full of it. I am certainly not fixing them all. Please help, I am using Minetest 0.4.12.

It would help if you list the mods you are using...

And also give the errors you receive.

So I notice at the bottom of the Error from Lua message they all say (a boolean value)... Here is the debug text from 3 of the many mods that no longer work, btw none of them seem to work, all have the same LUA error.



List of the Mods I use:

Areas
Carts
currency
digilines
emerald
mesecar
mesecons
mod_menu
minetest zcg master
moreblocks
moreores
streets
travelnet
unified inventory
Vanessa E's home decor mod pack
wardrobe
World Edit

Mods I created:
Skyscraper Material
Sparklenode

All of these have the same LUA error, and that is basically all of them that I have...

Unless you are lucky enough to be using a quantum computer nothing happens "out of the blue", there is always a cause. From the output it looks like one or more of your mod folders is named incorrectly. For instance: "minetest-mod-modmenu-master" should probably be named simply "modmenu". Sometimes when you download a mod, especially from a github repo (github automatically tags the download zip with a "-branchname"), the folder needs to be renamed. Some people also name their repos with "minetest-mod-" to try and keep their repos organized. This extra stuff needs to be removed from the folder name. See the "installing mods" sticky thread for more. As a kind of rule-of-thumb... if the downloaded package is named something like "minetest-mod-super_cool_stuff-master" you rename the folder to get rid of all the stuff separated by dashes "-" and keep the stuff separated by underscores "_", so this example mod should just be in a folder named "super_cool_stuff".

Well it started 3 days ago. It worked the day before and I know because I needed to test my new mod... It all worked at that time.

That isn't the problem that causes the crash, the problem is that one of your mods overrides / sets the variable "debug" when it shouldn't.

Use "local debug = true" etc instead of "debug = true". Mods should only set global variables which match their own mod namespace. (Ie: mod foobar should only set the global foobar)

How do I find what Mod is causing the problem?

**Edit - Found out what it was, A new mod I just installed, it was the Lifts mod.